Category: Church Tech

I am not the biggest geek in the family! »

And I have proof, my brother is writing for the Geek News Central tech blog. Go Nolan!
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Other Projects »

I haven’t posted in a while due to the time I’ve been spending on a website for our youth ministry at CCAG.  Once that is finished up, I’ll get back to posting here regularly.  Check it out if you’d like.

It is primarily intended to be a community type site (think Facebook & mySpace) so most [...]

Microsoft Office or OpenOffice in the church office? »

I know that there are others out there , but it seems that when it comes to the “office software” suites, it seems that these two are the biggest players.   In terms of sheer volume of users I’m sure that MS Office probably has more than 3/4 of the market. On one hand OO (OpenOffice) is [...]

A simple and free sermon recording setup »

Many churches like to record the sermons during their worship services.  Historically this was done by hooking up some type of tape recorder to their sound mixing board and then duplicating the master onto lesser quality media for distribution.  Your church probably still has cabinets full of cassette tapes and maybe even reels!  It was [...]

Open source and other free software for the church (and everyone else!) »

Here is the first paragraph from Wikipedia’s entry about open source software:

Open source is a set of principles and practices that promote access to the production and design process for various goods, products, resources and technical conclusions or advice. The term is most commonly applied to the source code of software that is made available [...]

Everybody likes free stuff, don’t they? »

I pastor a small church, with a small budget for tech. In fact, the computer used to do our bookeeping is running win98 (gasp!). That’s right, and we bought it in , you guessed it 1998. I would love to replace it, but it works and it does what we need it [...]